JK Rowling has claimed she is prouder of her years as a single mother than any other achievement, as she discloses how she was shunned at church for being “unmarried”.
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JK Rowling, the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series, said she is
“prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life”.
The writer, who is president of charity Gingerbread, added she wanted to give
hope to any single parents suffering “stereotype or stigmatisation” after being
ostracised herself as an “unmarried mother”.
Rowling added writing the first of the Harry Potter novels with the help of
state benefits to look after her daughter, Jessica, had “not been my plan”.
She has now used her position at Gingerbread to rail against the
“particularly offensive” language of “skivers vs strivers”, saying “such
rhetoric drains confidence and self-esteem from those who desperately want, as I
did, to get back into the job market”.
Rowling, who separated from her daughter’s father 20 years ago, said her
belief that she would immediately find paid work was a “much bigger delusion”
than believing she could write a children’s novel.
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